Super FLOP! The public recognizes pretentious excrement

"Beyond that, though, the Jennifer Lawrence character is rather one note...which is boring to watch for 2 hours..." YES! We basically just follow her around for two hours, watching her fret, which...thank God its her and not a lesser actress, but dang, after about an hour, I found myself exhausted. It was like Vietnam...a whole bunch of nothing THEN OMG SOMETHING, then back to poking around, hey what's with this bloody hole in the floor? Have you ever seen such a thing?
Where could it have come from? Let's come back to it a few times, using a variety of shots each ti- HOLY CRAP WE'RE ALL IN HELL but then again, there's a hole over here in the floor to be carefully examined, so we should probably look at that.

I didn't get the movie beyond it being an allegory. So its an allegory, so what? Does that make it an amazing film? That was two hours of building to the most exhausting last act...there's only so much empathy to give, right? She's our surrogate, Lawrence...she represents the audience, right? The camera following her around, seeing everything from her viewpoint etc. well did anyone else feel like they'd have killed themselves far sooner than she did?

It was too insane, too intense and kept building and building, and by the time the merciful end of this film came, I was 20 minutes past caring about anything other than it finally being over. And then it was...and after two hours of feeling miserably bored, miserable for the Jennifer character, then just miserable, there was no resolution, no satisfying...anything to make up for all the time we spent being uncomfortably invested in her character.
"Oh but it was an allegory and you have to understand that you're one of those who's ripping the house apart". DANCES WITH WOLVES, is what I'd say to you. There's a movie that so successful exhibits such a start contrast at the end, between the disgusting white man and noble Indian, that the much needed perspective made you feel good to feel like crap!